Yūtokutaishi Akiyama

Who is Yūtokutaishi Akiyama?

Yūtokutaishi Akiyama is a Japanese engraver artist, photographer, and occasional politician.

Born 1935 in Tokyo, Akiyama studied engraving at Musashino Art School, the predecessor of Musashino Art University, and then worked as an industrial designer for an electrical company. He started exhibiting his own tin engravings and other work from 1965, and in both 1975 and 1979 stood in elections for Governor of Tokyo, bringing pop art into the process.

Exhibitions of his work have included "Akiyama Yūtokutaishi no sekai-ten" in Ikeda 20-Seiki Bijutsukan in 1994.

From 1999 until 2003, Akiyama was an adjunct professor at Sapporo University.

Since 1992, Akiyama has joined Genpei Akasegawa and Yutaka Takanashi in Raika Dōmei.

Akiyama appears in the film Yūheisha/Terorisuto.

Work by Akiyama is in the permanent collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum.